| From: | Alexander G. M. Smith |
| Date: | 7 Sep 2000 at 18:29:02 |
| Subject: | RE: AMIOPEN: has anyone run SPEC benchmark using VP? |
mef@cs.washington.edu wrote on Wed, 6 Sep 2000 12:10:06 -0700:
> For example, I understand that the current translator does
> not do a great job with floating point computations, or
> dealing with C code that is compiled with "long" integers.
> Is this a limitation do to TAO/Ami's translator or does it
> fundamentally have to do how VP is designed?
For that matter, how well will VP and the alternatives handle
the future change to 64 bit pointers? 4 gigabytes just isn't
enough sometimes, though it will be a decade or two before
Internet Appliances need that much memory :-).
- Alex
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